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1 Samuel 16:19

Listen to 1 Samuel 16:19
19 Y Saúl envió mensajeros a Isaí, diciendo: Envíame a David tu hijo, el que está con las ovejas.

1 Samuel 16:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 16:19

Wherefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse
For David; not choosing to take him without his leave, though Samuel suggests that kings would do so, ( 1 Samuel 8:11 )

and said, send me David, thy son, which is with the sheep;
he had learnt his name, and what was his employment; and which last he mentions not by way of contempt, it not being reckoned mean and despicable even in the sons of great personages, in those times and countries, to attend flocks and herds: so with the Arabs, as Philo F14 testifies, young men and maids of the most illustrious families fed cattle; and with the ancient Romans, the senator F15 fed his own sheep. Paris, son of Priamus, king of Troy, is said F16 to feed his father's oxen and sheep; and Saul himself had done the same; but to describe him particularly.


FOOTNOTES:

F14 De Vita Mosis, l. 1. p. 610.
F15 "Pascebatque suas" Ovid. Fast. l. 1.
F16 Coluthi Raptus Helenae, v. 71, 101.
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1 Samuel 16:19 In-Context

17 Y Saúl respondió a sus criados: Buscadme, pues, ahora alguno que taña bien, y traédmelo.
18 Entonces uno de los criados respondió, diciendo: He aquí yo he visto a un hijo de Isaí de Belén, que sabe tocar, y es valiente y vigoroso, y hombre de guerra, prudente en sus palabras, y hermoso, y el SEÑOR es con él.
19 Y Saúl envió mensajeros a Isaí, diciendo: Envíame a David tu hijo, el que está con las ovejas.
20 Y tomó Isaí un asno cargado de pan, y un cántaro de vino y un cabrito, y lo envió a Saúl por mano de David su hijo.
21 Y viniendo David a Saúl, estuvo delante de él; y él lo amó mucho, y fue hecho su paje de armas.
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